My instruments are friends to me: I've had some great times with them, but sometimes that friendship knows some hard times as well. Just as in real life you have to maintain a friendship by spending lots of time with your friends, real or brass.

Since this week I have a new friend. This is my first natural horn: built around 1850 by Jiri Drab. I can't find a lot of information, but the Drab family built brass instruments near Budweiss, Germany during the 19th century.

The crooks aren't mine. My teacher lent them to me so I have to find some of my own in the future.